NEW DELHI: A committee of environmental experts set up by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has concluded that there were major shortfalls in complying with the prescribed environmental conditionalities and requirements with respect to the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP).

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal has said the SAD-BJP government would stop river waters going to neighbouring states and for that Section 5 of the Punjab Termination of River Waters Agreements Act would be scrapped.

Meet discusses ways for inclusive water management.

Bangalore, April 17 Farmers, Government officials, scientists and NGOs engaged in improving water use patterns in the Tungabhadra basin have called for improved water management and cropping techniques to cope with two looming problems: inter-State disputes on resource use and the problems arising out of climate change.

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ANDIPATTI (THENI): The AIADMK and the DMK miserably failed in settling the Periyar dam issue, charged Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) leader Vijaykant.

The parties betrayed the people of Theni and four other southern districts. With wrong policies, Tamil Nadu had been depending on three neighbouring States for drinking water, he said.

by Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich in Wazirabad

Crucial, coveted and increasingly scarce, water has become the latest issue to stoke tensions between India and Pakistan, with farmers in Pakistan

The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed March 26 to hear Goas petition objecting the construction of Kalasa Banduri project on Mahadayi river in Karnataka.

When senior advocate Rajiv Dhavan insisted for an early hearing, a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said,

Warning of a social unrest over the prevailing water crisis in the country, the Supreme Court has suggested the Government study alternate modes of conserving water and devise strategies to create buffer stock of drinking water on a